Lotus Quest

The lotus is the world''s most iconic flower. Galvanised by receiving seeds from a three-thousand-year-old lotus, which flowered without difficulty in an English summer, Mark Griffiths set out to track the path of this sublime plant to its home in the Lotus-Lands of Japan.

The Lotus Quest unveils a stunning vision of Japan''s feudal era, as Griffiths visits shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landsca...